Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Often invited to visit the U.S. earlier, Lott replied that "conditions did not permit." He referred to a group of troublesome Brazilian militarists who have obeyed him only grudgingly ever since 1955, when he called out troops loyal to him in a "preventive coup," forestalling a plot by some other officers and ensuring the inauguration of President Juscelino Kubitschek. For the past four years Lott has disciplined the hotheads gently (usually with house arrest), built a fiercely loyal cadre of junior officers by promoting them up from the ranks...
When his turn came at the microphone, Figueres recalled that "our group gave what modest aid it could to end tyranny in Cuba" (notably a planeload of arms to Castro in his darkest days). Figueres went on to say that "in Latin America we ignore a little the possibility of a great conflagration, of a third World War." He anxiously noted that in dealing with the U.S. "at times we speak in the language almost of warlike enemies." He confessed "worry" about Communist influence in Latin America and warned against siding with the Soviets in the cold war. At this...
Same Fashion, Same Formula. To land Mitzie her prize present, Sam ("Mr. S.I.") Newhouse operated in the same forthright fashion that he has used for four decades to collect an unusual group of 14 newspapers and five TV and radio stations. Just a fortnight ago, Newhouse heard that Condé Nast President and Publisher Iva Sergei ("Pat") Voidato-Patcévitch, 58, was willing to sell his option to buy controlling interest in the company, which he got last fall from Britain's Amalgamated Press. Hard hit by recession cutbacks in ads, Condé Nast Publications lost...
This jabberwockian fantasy is not the handiwork of a beat generation poet, but the nightly stock in trade of the nation's slickest new vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor...
Thirty years ago a middle-aged grocer named Donald Shapiro of Scranton, Pa. signed up with a group to whom his rabbi was giving a night course in the Talmud-the vast accretion of text and commentary that forms the body of Jewish law. They studied hard-an hour a night, six nights a week. This week, after about 9,000 hours, retired Grocer Shapiro, 78, completed the course...